Skeletons, Earthenware, Spngebob Pin~atas.

travel.nytimes.com — Tonalá is where the professionals shop. I visited with Rebecca Allen, an interior designer based in San Francisco, who has been making regular buying trips to Tonalá for more than a decade. She is part of an ancient tradition: the town, near rich clay seams, has been a center of pottery — and of trade more broadly — for millenniums.